Fable III: How to Make Enough Money to Save the People of Albion

*Warning: Contains some game spoilers

When playing Fable III, you have a choice to be good, bad or something in-between (like all of the Fable games). No matter how you play it, there are ways to make some good money, which is going to make a big difference during the last quest of main game play. This quest requires you to fight a darkness that is descending upon Albion. If you do not have enough gold in the country's coffers, you will not have a big enough army and some or all of the people of Albion will die. On the other hand, if you have 6,500,000 gold in the treasury, you can save everyone from the darkness. Unfortunately, just barreling through Fable III's quests is not going to make you that kind of gold. You are going to have to make a conscious effort to raise the money.

You may be wondering why you should bother to save the people of Albion - especially if you do not like to play nice. The thing is, the last quest of main game play is not really the end of Fable III. There are more quests to be played after you defeat the darkness. These quests will still be there if you do not have enough gold to raise an army. However, if you do not save everyone, all the citizens will be lying dead in the streets after the battle, including shopkeepers and the like. That is not good if you have quests that require you purchase something or you want to adopt a child to open a certain demon door.

Once you have become King or Queen of Albion, you will have to make some decisions that will cost money. This can leave the treasury brimming with gold or severely lacking it. Making all of the morally good choices will cost you 2,000,000 gold. Therefore, you must raise 8,500,000 to make up for the difference and to raise a large enough army. On the other hand, you can just make morally corrupt judgments and save yourself a bundle. This way, you only need 850,000 of your own gold to fill the treasury. (Make sure you put all of your money into the treasury when the game tells you there are 121 days left to raise the money. There are really no days left at this point. Once you make the last decisions in the throne room at this time, your time for transferring money is up.)

Collecting enough money to save the people of Albion starts at the beginning of Fable III, if you want to be a morally good King or Queen of Albion. Do odd jobs, complete quests and sell unneeded items to raise enough money to start buying real estate (Make sure you collect enough guild seals along the way by making friends and killing enemies to open the chests you will need to buy real estate.) Start small by buying cheap houses, fixing them up and renting them out. This will earn you a passive income that will suffice to buy more cheap houses and eventually more expensive houses and shops.)

Make sure you do not raise the rent or prices on real estate. This is morally corrupt. Do side quests while you build up your real estate holdings. This will get you gold and guild seals, while keeping you from progressing on the main quests until you have earned all you can.

If you do not mind being the bad guy, you do not have much money to raise. That does not mean that you cannot make a little money buying houses and renting them out for unfair prices. You can even buy some shops and raise the prices through the roof. You can make a lot of gold being bad in Fable III. Do not forget to rob houses and intimidate shopkeepers.

Once you have access to the treasury, you should have much more than you need, if you have been sufficiently bad and refused to pay fines while fighting the guards. Just transfer 850,000 gold into the treasury and you are all set. (Transferring your own money into the treasury is a good thing to do, so be sure to transfer a bunch out and back in to maintain your corrupt status.)

Raising a big enough army to save the people of Albion in Fable III will not make the war against the darkness any easier. The task remains the same, either way. The only upside is that you will still be able to use the shops and interact with people (which is helpful for a number of reasons) once you beat the main quest part of the game. It will be a lot less depressing too (if you like that sort of thing). The dead bodies are a bit of an eyesore.